Poetry
- Fleur Adcock - For A Five-Year-Old*
- Aga Shahid Ali - Stationary
- Yehuda Amichai - In Front of the Concrete Wall
- Margaret Atwood - Is/Not
- Diana Ayton-Shenker - I Will Hold You
- Joe Boulton - Adult Situations
- Michael Carey - Amen*
- Billy Collins - I Go Back To The House For A Book
- John Donne - The Good Morrow
- Carol Ann Duffy - Valentine
- Max Ehrmann - Desiderata*
- T S Eliot - Ash Wednesday*
- T S Eliot - Four Quartets
- T S Eliot - The Waste Land
- Andrea Gibson - Blue Blanket*
- Jack Gilbert - Failing and Flying*
- Laura Gilpin - The Two-Headed Calf*
- Dana Gioia - The Lost Garden*
- Kenneth Koch - Alive For An Instant
- Frank O’Hara - Morning*
- Frank O’Hara - Poem*
- Frank O’Hara - Steps*
- Kobayashi Issa (haikus)
- Ted Kooser - Selecting A Reader
- Michael Lassell - How To Watch Your Brother Die
- Rebecca Liv Wee - Betrayal
- Archibald Macleish - Ars Poetica
- Robert Mezey - In The Soul Hour
- Howard Nemerov - Because you asked about the line between prose and poetry
- Pablo Neruda - I Do Not Love You*
- Pablo Neruda - Sonnet XLV
- Pablo Neruda - Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines*
- Mary Oliver - Oxygen
- Mary Oliver - A Settlement*
- Gregory Orr - Father’s Song
- Sylvia Plath - Mirror
- Stefan Psenak - Untitled
- Adrienne Rich - For An Album*
- Rainer Maria Rilke - Entrance
- J. Allyn Rosser - Equitable Distribution
- Jalalud’din Rumi - The Lovers
- Veronica Shoffstall - After a While*
- Richard Siken - Scheherazade*
- Richard Siken - You Are Jeff*
- Edna St Vincent Millay - Dirge Without Music
- Edna St Vincent Millay - Love Is Not All
- Edna St Vincent Millay - Sonnet XLIII
- Edna St Vincent Millay (misc)
- Mark Strand - Nostalgia
- Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos
- Jane Urquhart - Shadow*
- Christl Verduyn - Housework
- Walt Whitman - A Noiseless Patient Spider
- Cyril Wong - Practical Aim
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Walt Whitman… One of the pieces of John Adams I studied for last term’s essay was based on a text by him. It’s called “The Wound Dresser”, it’s a piece for baritone voice and orchestra. It’s very good, but really sad. Doesn’t speak Adams at all until you look really closely. Ahem, you can tell what my essay was on.
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Comment by Paul — Thursday March 8, 2007 @ 10:29 pm